# Flush the toilets. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 2, 2009, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flush-the-toilets/498459 "2009-06-02T05:26:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Fenrizset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4bbf92/32.png) [@Fenrizset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenrizset)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flush-the-toilets/498459/81 "2009-06-05T20:58:48Z")
LOL…I would have needed a sky hook like Jordan. The only stall was at the far end of the bathroom. But if it ever happens again. I’ll try that. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flush-the-toilets/498459/82 "2009-06-09T18:33:47Z")
> [@Carnacki](#): > > At San Dimas City College, they teach us to wash our hands after we urinate… Wait – did you have to go to college to learn that? Does SDCC offer a MAJOR in toilet training? Is it part of the Athletic Department, or Fine Arts? In the second year do they teach you to not pee on your hands? ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flush-the-toilets/498459/83 "2009-06-09T19:43:23Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > People who care about the environment and conserving resources. And sadly, that doesn’t seem to be 2/3 of the population these days. You people that don’t flush aren’t conserving anything, you’re just being insensitive louts. You’re just making the next guy do your flushing for you, before he goes and then finally flushes his own waste. Water conserved: none. What, you really didn’t think someone was going to go directly in your mess, did you? ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flush-the-toilets/498459/84 "2009-06-09T20:57:18Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > You people that don’t flush aren’t conserving anything, you’re just being insensitive louts. You’re just making the next guy do your flushing for you, before he goes and then finally flushes his own waste. Water conserved: none. What, you really didn’t think someone was going to go directly in your mess, did you? Really? You can’t pee in a toilet that already has some urine in it? How do you use an outhouse or porta-potty? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flush-the-toilets/498459/85 "2009-06-09T23:15:09Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > You people that don’t flush aren’t conserving anything, you’re just being insensitive louts. You’re just making the next guy do your flushing for you, before he goes and then finally flushes his own waste. Water conserved: none. What, you really didn’t think someone was going to go directly in your mess, did you? Why would you not pee in a urinal that already has pee in it? ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flush-the-toilets/498459/86 "2009-06-10T04:51:27Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > Really? You can’t pee in a toilet that already has some urine in it? How do you use an outhouse or porta-potty? Perhaps this is just a “girl thing” but when one has to park their butt within inches of the water level in the toilet, one is not likely to leave someone else’s waste in the bowl so that it can splash back up onto the previously clean girly bits. ---
**Author:** ![Carnacki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Carnacki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnacki)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flush-the-toilets/498459/87 "2009-06-10T15:38:08Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Wait – did you have to go to college to learn that? > > Does SDCC offer a MAJOR in toilet training? Is it part of the Athletic Department, or Fine Arts? > > In the second year do they teach you to not pee on your hands? You’re supposed to say, “Well at Coastline Community College, they teach us not to piss on our hands.” ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flush-the-toilets/498459/88 "2009-06-11T03:47:09Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > Perhaps this is just a “girl thing” but when one has to park their butt within inches of the water level in the toilet, one is not likely to leave someone else’s waste in the bowl so that it can splash back up onto the previously clean girly bits. Yeah. It’s really not pleasant. Personally, I’d always choose a toilet with piss in the bowl over a toilet that has no piss in the bowl but _does_ have sparkly yellow splashes around the seat. Many women prefer not to piss a few centimetres above someone else’s urine, and that’s understandable. It was only the other day that I worked out how some women manage to piss over the back of the toilet seat - they turn round, crouch without touching the seat, and piss facing the cistern. That means that they never have to touch the seat, but makes it pretty much definite that anyone using the loo after them has to wipe a stranger’s urine off the seat if they want (or need) to sit down. I can’t think of any other way drops of urine get to touch the back of the seat in women’s loos. I’m not talking about grotty pub loos that men might have been using too - I’m thinking loos where there are long queues of women who’d chase any man away (our queue is long enough already - get you to your loos where there’s no wait!) or loos where men wouldn’t think of going in the ladies’. BFI Imax, I’m looking at you. One screen. One two hour long film. I was second in line straight after the film ended. All but one of the loos were covered in piss, toilet roll or shit. Yes, the staff should have cleaned it up in that time, but the customers shouldn’t have been so gross in the first place. Saving water by not flushing after you piss is fine for at home, but not in public. and I don’t believe that many of the people who think they’re good to flush are doing it for environmental reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2009, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flush-the-toilets/498459/89 "2009-06-12T21:27:04Z")
Yesterday at Boston U. Medical Center, I came upon an unflushed toilet that had corn and green beans floating in it. You never know what you will find in a hospital toilet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flush-the-toilets/498459.md?page=4)